Manufacturars Are Building Asics That Look More Like Servers. HERE’S WHY: BLOCKSPACE

WHAT ComES NEXT? Will The Shoebox Design Persist As Standard for Bitcoin Mining Asics? Or Will Another Form Factor that More Resembles Traditional Dataceent Servers Win Out?

Asic manufacturars are increasingly betting on the latter-or at at least, that a hydro-conoled server rock design will be become a substantial potion of Bitcoin Mining Fleets. Moreover, they’re leaning in the “DIRECT-TO-CHIP” Cooling for Further Efficiency Gains.

Auradine’s New AH3880, Released March 2025.

Last September, Bitmain Announced ITS Model U3S21Exph (A Bit of A Mouthful, Eh?) Developed in a Partnership with Hut 8. Its U3 Design Means One Takes Up. Microbt Soon Followed with ITS M63 Hydro Series, As Did Bitdeer’s Sealminer A2 Hydro Unit.

Following Suit, Auradine Released ITS Server Rack Model, The AH3880, This March. ITS U2 Design, Who Occupies Two Server Slots, Is A Bit Smaller, But It Packs More Hashrate Per Unit of Space at 600 Th/S (Or 300 Th/S per SLOT) Versus Bitmain

Shobox outSo, what’s with the switch up from the traditional shoe box? For Auradine, It’s All About Customer Demand.

“[Our new model is] Based Upon A Lot of Feedback That We Got from Miner Customers… We’ve Been Working With The Miners Even Throughout the Design Process, ”Auradine CSO Sanjay Gupta. US that were look for a quality Hydro Based Miner. ”

In itts Partnership with Bitmain for the U3S21Exph, “Hut 8 was Instrumental in the Custom Design for the Infrastructure, Particularly The U Form Factor WHICH” is compatible. INVESTOR RELATIONS SUE INNIS TOLD BLOCKSPACE Last September. (More on the High Performance Computing Angle Later).

The Benefit of A Server Rack Asic Lies in Standardization. Bitcoin Miners Are IncreASINGly Marching in Step with The Traditional Datacenter Industry, and that Industry Cold See 40% Adoptation of Direct Liquid-To-To-Tour Center.

If miners adapt this design, then theoretically, they Optimize their Supple Chains by converging on server designs that beekoming Best Practice in the Big-Boy Data Center Sector.

This Could Make Building and Repairing Bitcoin Mines Easier. And it could also Make Mining Companies More Nimble if they Want to Flex Out of Bitcoin Mining and Into Other Forms of Compute.

Enter ai and HPCAs with so Much Mining News Today, of Course The Spectre of AI is Looming in the Background.

If miners construct their Data Centers with Traditional Server Rack Designs, There Is One Less Pain Point if IF they want to retrofit these sites for ai and hpc loads. Of COURSE, they’d Still Need to Augment The Sinews, Muscles and Veins of Their Operations With More Robust Networking and Electrical Infrastructure, But Server Racks Wold ProprocTructive Services that requires less restructuring than legacy bitcoin mines. As Ennis Put it, “The U Form Factor… is Compatible with HPC style architecture.”

Echoing this, gupta said in our mining pod interview that “[The U form factor has] Been used for the ai Data Center. IT’s Easy to Adjust. I Got a High [power] density to it… [it] is extremely relevant for ai data centers as well, and we are look at a joint Strategy Between ai for HPC and Bitcoin Mining. SO the U Form Factor Works Well with that. ”

Who’s Buying It?Perhaps Needless to Say, The Server Rack Form Factor for Bitcoin Mining Mining Is Still In Its Infance, and While there is the promise that such a Design Could Win Out, there

To Start, Bitcoin Miners Will Not Only to Rework The Innards of Their Mines But Also Completely Rewire their Electric Infrastructure (Which Is Unlikely).

Cholla’s Brad Cuddy, WHICH OPERATES HYDRO-COOLED Asic MINers, Told Blockspace Last September That “He’s Excited To See The Shift from [server rack] Form Factor. ” But he said the U3S21Exph’s Voltage Range is incompatible with Certain Electric Infrastructure That Mines Use With Other Bitmain Models.

“The Restricted Range of 380 to 415 Volts Reduces ITS Compatibility for Retrofitting. I would have like to see the Voltage Range Go All The Way Up to 480 Volts to Allow. Infrastructure Deployments, ”He Said.

As Such, It’s Likely That We’ll See Miners Integrate Tese Units at New Sites. Hut 8 Is Taking this Approach with Plans to Host 15 EH/S of U3S21Exph Units for Bitmain (with An Op Purchase) at ITS VEGA, Texas Site, Wich is Due to Start Operation.

SO FAR, HUT 8 IS The ONLY PUBLIC Buyer of Bitmain’s U3S21Exph. Gupta Did Not Reveal Which Mines Are Under Contract for Its AH3880, BUT HE DID SAY they INCLUDE SEVERAL INDUSTRAL SCALE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC MINERS. It wouldnn’T be surprising to see mara, one of auradine’s key Partners with a kind of hos also inwested upwards of $ 50 Million in the Company, Adept The Model.

Should Hut 8’s Vega Site Run Smoothly on Bitmain’s Model, and if We Assume That Mara Will Deploy Auradine’s, Public Miners May Lead Wall Facco Modern Mine Design.